The phrase "ancestral laws" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to traditional or historical laws that are passed down through generations, often within a specific culture or community.
Example: "The community adheres to ancestral laws that have governed their way of life for centuries."
Alternatives: "traditional laws" or "heritage laws".
Ethically, trophy hunting is not consistent with our ancestral laws".
Ethically, trophy hunting is not consistent with our ancestral laws". VICE reached out to several other First Nation organizations for an interview, but did not receive any responses.
In its discussion of the impact of raupatu and 'land reform' in Taranaki ( The Taranaki Report: Kaupapa Tuatahi, 1996) the Waitangi Tribunal observed that: "Ancestral laws on how lands were held, allocated and inherited were displaced by Government laws that brought Māori into the Government system".
All that was prelude to a judge's ruling this month that Thorpe's two surviving sons had the right under American Indian ancestral law to move his remains from Jim Thorpe, Pa., to the Sac and Fox lands in Oklahoma where he was raised.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander links to their cultural and ancestral lands became enshrined in Australian law with the subsequent passing of the 1993 Native Title Act.
All I miss is the suggestion that Eddie is part of a wider working community whose ancient laws and ancestral taboos he has fatally broken.
Told of the law passed in California, he paused, then replied: "They can eat prunes". Europe, he said, cannot ban foie gras because France has declared it an ancestral patrimony, and indeed laws in other European countries ban merely the production, not the import or consumption of foie gras.
In England, the Biometric school of Karl Pearson and Raphael Weldon were developing a quantitative approach that took Francis Galton "Law of ancestral heredity" as its point of departure.
In his memoir, he recalls the Slad of his 1920s childhood as "a deep-running cave still linked to its antic past", its shadows "cluttered by sprits and by laws still vaguely ancestral".
Every summer Dolores takes herself off to Tuscany to spend a few weeks with her daughter and son-in-law at his ancestral family home.
It's ancestral land and protected by law, and living in the city is a hard adjustment to make, so they return as soon as they can, and are then displaced again".
